Lab Girl

Lab Girl is a tremendous non-fiction book written by Hope Jahren. Hope is an award winning geobiologist who grew up loving science. She grew up in Minnesota near the border with Iowa. Her father was a science teacher at a community college and he let her play in his lab. She loved playing in the lab and eventually made it her career. In the book she talks about her studies and her career. She has created labs in Georgia, California, Norway and also in Hawaii which is where she lives now. She met another science student at her first job as a professor named Bill. She and Bill hit it off and she has kept him employed in her labs. Their relationship is like a very close brother and sister. She also has a husband and a child. The book mixes information from her life with information about plants. She starts out with the seeds, goes on to the roots and the stem and the leaves. I can tell from her writing that plants are her passion and it is a joy to read the work of someone who is so enthusiastic.